Posts filed under: MarTech

4G brought about video streaming, app stores, programmatic auctions and an entry point into the world of virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence. With 5G, experts say advertisers and publishers should expect much more. Imagine hopping in an autonomous...
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  • Why the Industry Is Fed Up with Ad Fraud Solutions
Ad fraud technology is helpful until it isn’t. Many publishers, brands, and agencies work with multiple solution-providers, which gets pricy, frustrating and even confusing. Their laundry list of grievances includes sizable data discrepancies between solution-providers, outlandish pricing, and network infrastructure...
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AT&T has snapped up adtech giant AppNexus in a deal estimated to be worth more than a billion dollars as it looks to bulk up its adtech capabilities, its second acquisition within a month. The pair haven’t publicly disclosed the...
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  • GDPR will pop the adtech bubble
In The Big Short , investor Michael Burry says “One hallmark of mania is the rapid rise in the incidence and complexity of fraud.” (Burry shorted the mania- and fraud-filled subprime mortgage market and made a mint in the process.)...
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  • Facebook unveils new analytics features, including a tool to track the omnichannel journey
Facebook introduced new analytics features — including a tool to track customer journeys through multiple channels — on Tuesday at its F8 developer conference. Journeys is the most notable addition to Facebook’s currents analytics tools. It provides omnichannel data and...
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The growth of digital media has created tremendous opportunities for publishers to reach and monetize audiences across the web. However, the industry’s obsession with scale has brought challenges, such as platform vulnerability and not knowing their audience, leading publishers to...
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  • LUMA Digital Brief 019 - Market Report Q1 2018
LUMA’s latest Market Report highlights the public and private markets during Q1 2018. Coming off a year headlined by media’s mega mergers, the impact is expected to spur continued consolidation this year along with other market forces. In Ad Tech,...
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By Tom Shields, Chief Strategy Officer, AppNexus Why is transparency important in the programmatic supply chain? I get this question a lot. Recently, I delivered a keynote on radical transparency at the Programmatic Summit in Sydney. The session went well—until...
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Integral Ad Science (IAS) has unveiled a first-to-market technology solution that helps programmatic advertisers target mobile in-app ads that are brand safe, free of fraud and have a viewability goal. The tool is already integrated into the trading process on...
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  • 3 Ways to Stop Wasting Money on Ads No One Sees
When Marc Pritchard uses choice language to call out the advertising industry, it listens. As chief brand officer of Procter & Gamble, Pritchard manages a significant share of the global advertising budget—which is expected to hit $600 billion by 2021—and...
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